Moshe Carmeli (1933-2007) was Albert Einstein Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Ben Gurion University in Israel and president of the Israel Physical Society[1] who in the early 1990s developed his new theory named cosmological special relativity (CSR) and then his general theory which included matter.[2] In 1996, before the supernovae experiments results become known, he was first to predict using this new CSR theory the possibility that the universe expansion is accelerating.[1][2][3]
According to John Hartnett the Carmeli cosmology is revolutionary in its implementation and interpretation. Carmeli approached the problem of explaining the structure of the universe using new physics that primarily involves a new dimension - the radial velocity of the galaxies in the expanding universe. In his theory, no explicit cosmological constant[note 1] or any dark energy is employed. Carmeli's model is a challenge to standard big bang theory, because it shows that a model other than Friedmann-Lemaître models can describe the large structure of the universe without the two needed add-on fudge factors: hypothetical 'dark' matter and 'dark' energy.[2]

The University of Victoria in British Columbia summarized about him: "Carmeli has suggested that the universe's expansion must be constantly accelerating, and that time is therefore relative; in other words, it can only be measured relative to the position and velocity of the measurer. This also means that time must have moved more slowly in the past when the universe was smaller and moving more slowly. Carmeli's work has posed an intriguing set of problems for theoretical physicists and has even been investigated by scholars for its philosophical and religious implications."[5]

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↑ 2.02.12.2Hartnett, John (2007). Starlight, Time and the New Physics. Creation Ministries International, 43, 56, 63, 122. ISBN 978-0-949-906687. “In 1996, using his new theory, Carmeli predicted that the universe must be accelerating.”

↑International Visiting Scholars Bring Range of Expertise to UVic: Moshe Carmeli - Re-Envisioning Relativity. The University of Victoria. “Astrophysicist Moshe Carmeli is Albert Einstein Professor of Theoretical Physics at Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel. He has also done important work at the University of Maryland and for the US Department of Defense as well as being involved in the nomination process for the Nobel Prize in Physics. Re-envisioning Einstein's theories of Special and General Relativity and building on the work of Edwin Hubble, Dr. Carmeli has suggested that the universe's expansion must be constantly accelerating, and that time is therefore relative; in other words, it can only be measured relative to the position and velocity of the measurer. This also means that time must have moved more slowly in the past when the universe was smaller and moving more slowly. Carmeli's work has posed an intriguing set of problems for theoretical physicists and has even been investigated by scholars for its philosophical and religious implications. He is currently on sabbatical at UVic doing research on subatomic particles with UVic physicist Fred Cooperstock, with whom Dr. Carmeli has a longstanding personal and professional relationship.”